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Gaëtan Picon (19 September 1915 – 6 August 1976) was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian. He was director of the ''
Mercure de France The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...
'' and Director-General of Arts and Letters under
André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( ; ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (''Man's Fate'') (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed ...
. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher
Albert Skira Albert Skira (1904–1973) was a Swiss people, Swiss art dealer, publisher and the founder of the Skira (publisher), Skira publishing house. The Skira publishing house, Editions d'Art Albert Skira Skira founded the Skira (publisher), eponymous p ...
.Gaëtan Picon. Skira Albert (1904-1973). Encyclopaedia Universalis https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/albert-skira/(Accessed March 21, 2019)


Selected bibliography

* Balzac: Balzac par lui-même. (1956). Microcosme ecrivains de toujou. Editions du Seui, Paris. 191 pp. * Ingres: Biographical and Critical Study (1967) The Taste of Our Time, Vol. 47. Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 131 pp. * The Work of Jean Dubuffet (1973). Albert Skira, Geneva. 233 pp. * Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939 (1977). Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 231 pp. * Birth Of Modern Painting (1978). Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 135 pp. * Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1980). Published by Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 151 pp.


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Worldcat Identities
Gaëtan Picon, Overview http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50019731/
1915 births 1976 deaths French art critics French male essayists People of Ligurian descent 20th-century French essayists 20th-century French male writers {{france-nonfiction-writer-stub